[Amanda-users] Amtapetype not returning right tape length?

2010-03-09 Thread rory_f
Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday 09 March 2010, rory_f wrote: If the card is wide scsi, perhaps a cabling issue or termination issue has caused it to fall back to scsi-II width and speeds? I have read that some cards do this, and a reboot once the problem is solved, might bring back the

Re: [Amanda-users] Amtapetype not returning right tape length?

2010-03-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 09 March 2010, rory_f wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 08 March 2010, rory_f wrote: Please do. It could be something I missed, or it could be a brand new phenomenon to file away in my trivia file. gene, ama...@backup tor]$ amtapetype -o -f /dev/nst0 -e 400G Writing 1024 Mbyte

[Amanda-users] Amtapetype not returning right tape length?

2010-03-09 Thread rory_f
Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 08 March 2010, rory_f wrote: Please do. It could be something I missed, or it could be a brand new phenomenon to file away in my trivia file. gene, ama...@backup tor]$ amtapetype -o -f /dev/nst0 -e 400G Writing 1024 Mbyte compresseable data: 31 sec

Re: [Amanda-users] Amtapetype not returning right tape length?

2010-03-09 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 9:55 AM, rory_f amanda-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote: One question; i don't have to run amtapetype every time i do this do i? For instance, say the speed problems are resolved, will amdump pick up on this automatically or does it stick to the tape speed given in

[Amanda-users] Amtapetype not returning right tape length?

2010-03-09 Thread rory_f
Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 9:55 AM, rory_f amanda-forum at backupcentral.com wrote: One question; i don't have to run amtapetype every time i do this do i? For instance, say the speed problems are resolved, will amdump pick up on this automatically or does it

Re: intermittent amanda failure

2010-03-09 Thread Steve Wray
Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday 09 March 2010, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 1:58 PM, Steve Wray steve.w...@cwa.co.nz wrote: Right, so the LATEST most up-to-date version of Debian uses a 3 year old version of amanda. Fantastic, thanks Debian for keeping things so 'stable'.

Amanda-friendly distro?

2010-03-09 Thread Steve Wray
Hi there I've been looking at the state of Amanda in a few distros. Ubuntu and Centos so far seem to have pretty old versions of Amanda. Can anyone suggest a distro that tracks Amanda upstream reasonably well? Ie doesn't include bug-ridden versions in their stable releases... Not that I'm

Re: [Amanda-users] Amtapetype not returning right tape length?

2010-03-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 09 March 2010, rory_f wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday 09 March 2010, rory_f wrote: If the card is wide scsi, perhaps a cabling issue or termination issue has caused it to fall back to scsi-II width and speeds? I have read that some cards do this, and a reboot once the

Re: intermittent amanda failure

2010-03-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 09 March 2010, Steve Wray wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday 09 March 2010, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 1:58 PM, Steve Wray steve.w...@cwa.co.nz wrote: Right, so the LATEST most up-to-date version of Debian uses a 3 year old version of amanda. Fantastic,

Re: Amanda-friendly distro?

2010-03-09 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 8:20 PM, Steve Wray steve.w...@cwa.co.nz wrote: Can anyone suggest a distro that tracks Amanda upstream reasonably well? Ie doesn't include bug-ridden versions in their stable releases... I'm a Gentoo user, and they're up to date:

Re: Amanda-friendly distro?

2010-03-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 09 March 2010, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 8:20 PM, Steve Wray steve.w...@cwa.co.nz wrote: Can anyone suggest a distro that tracks Amanda upstream reasonably well? Ie doesn't include bug-ridden versions in their stable releases... I'm a Gentoo user, and they're

Re: Amanda-friendly distro?

2010-03-09 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 10:06 PM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net wrote: Well, TBT Dustin, other than the rather terse ChangeLog, no one seems to be using much ink bragging about the newest bells and whistles.  Some timely article submissions to the review sites might let them know that